Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission

As the executive director of DVRPC, the Philadelphia regional municipal planning organization that oversees billions of dollars in transportation funding, Barry Seymour has fostered DVRPC’s innovative work in a wide range of planning disciplines. This has included food system planning, healthy communities, energy and climate change, land use/transportation linkages, and equity. In addition, Barry has supported multiple innovative approaches to promoting and funding more pedestrian and bicycle activity in the region, from creating one of the first in-country permanent and cyclical bicycle and pedestrian counting programs to launching the pedestrian portal, which includes a sidewalk inventory, connectivity analysis tool, and a crowd sourced database of pedestrian plans and projects. Barry has also strongly supported the planning profession, serving as co-chair of the 2007 APA National Conference in Philadelphia, as Chair of the Southeast Section of the PA Chapter, as CoChair of a Chapter Conference in Philadelphia, as a member of the Narberth Borough Planning Commission, and as an adjunct faculty member at Widener University in the Master of Public Administration Program.